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A US oceanographic vessel Thursday had its underwater drone stolen by a Chinese warship literally right in front of the eyes of the American crew, a US defense official told CNN Friday.
In the latest encounter in international waters in the South China Sea region, the USNS Bowditch was sailing about 100 miles off the port at Subic Bay when the incident occurred, according to the official.
Continue reading “US Defense official: Chinese warship stole US underwater drone”
DENVER (CBS4)– The Denver Police Department is defending officers who were caught on video taking blankets and tents from homeless people when temperatures dropped to below freezing overnight.
The American Civil Liberties Union posted video on Facebook that shows Denver police officers confiscating blankets from people who were camped out in 20 degree weather. Continue reading “Police Respond After Taking Blankets From Homeless”
WEB Notes: Because nothing spells truth like Snopes and ABC. We have been posting articles about social media moving to censor news and here it comes. Their experts will consist of the controlled mainstream media and the supposed truth teller snopes. These are attempts to shape your world, to dictate to you what is truth and what is fiction. Everyone’s eyes should be wide open.
Facebook is going to start fact-checking, labeling, and burying fake news and hoaxes in its News Feed, the company said Thursday. Continue reading “Facebook Is Going To Use Snopes And Other Fact-Checkers To Combat And Bury ‘Fake News’”
A Milwaukee police officer charged with killing a black man in August fired the fatal shot after the man had thrown his gun away and was unarmed, according to court documents. Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was set to appear in court Friday on a charge of reckless homicide in the Aug. 13 death of Sylville Smith, which sparked two days of riots on Milwaukee’s north side. In the days after the shooting, both the police chief and the mayor had said that police video clearly showed Smith had a gun and was turning toward officers when he was shot. Thursday’s criminal complaint echoed that, but went on to describe a second shot, fired into Smith’s chest after Smith no longer had his gun. Continue reading “Ex-officer to appear in court in fatal Milwaukee shooting”
How many cops does it take to check on a man when his employer is concerned that he hasn’t shown up for work?
At least a dozen, by Benjamin Marshall Burruss’ estimate.
According to his November 19 lawsuit filed in federal court, Albemarle County Police held Burruss for two hours in his truck after he said he was fine, had no intention of harming anyone and didn’t want to talk to police, then used a flash grenade, bashed in his window, hauled him out of the truck and had him committed for psychiatric evaluation for more than 72 hours. Continue reading “SWAT PTSD: Albemarle police sued for false imprisonment”
The Indiana Supreme Court last month ruled that it is more important for police to respect the privacy of drivers than to pull them over to check whether they are in need of assistance. The justices took up the case of Mary Osborne, who on December 14, 2014 forgot to use the parking brake on her black BMW at a Marathon gas station in Fishers. The car rolled backward and briefly pinned her under the car.
The gas station attendant called 911, and Officer Jason Arnold arrived on the scene, only to watch as the BMW safely drove away. Officer Arnold did not see any traffic violations, but he decided to stop her anyway. Continue reading “Indiana Supreme Court Overturns Driver Welfare Traffic Stop”
Greg Lake, in his former life as King Crimson, before he was known as Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Because of yet another mix-up with bioterror pathogens, a federal terrorism response training center in Alabama says it mistakenly exposed more than 9,600 firefighters, paramedics and other students to a deadly toxin over the past five years.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness blames an outside laboratory for a series of shipping errors since 2011 that resulted in the first-responder training center using in its classes a potentially lethal form of ricin powder. The poison, made from castor beans, is capable of killing at small doses. Continue reading “Emergency trainees mistakenly exposed to deadly ricin”
The Daily Caller – by Caroline May
The number of migrants apprehended illegally entering the United States via the Southwest border continued to rise in November, according to data released Thursday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Last month, Border Patrol apprehended a daily average of nearly 1,574 border crossers — or a total of 47,214 — attempting to enter the country illegally. Since July, the number of attempted illegal border crossings has been on the rise, on top of already elevated numbers. November’s totals were the highest seen at the U.S.-Mexico border since June 2014, when 57,862 migrants were apprehended illegally crossing into the U.S. Continue reading “Record Surge Continues At Border: Over 1,570 Apprehended Per Day Last Month”
Conway Daily Sun – by Lloyd Jones
CONWAY — Thirty-eight kindergartners at the Pine Tree School in Center Conway were on a mission Thursday as they went on a roundup of missing gingerbread men.
Pupils in Amy Trussell’s and Sarah Learn’s kindergarten classes have been reading books about gingerbread men, including the “Gingerbread Baby,” by Jan Brett, and learning about the importance of community. Continue reading “Successful Roundup: 38 Gingerbread Men Found Safe And Sound”
On Saturday, Denver’s mayor, Michael B. Hancock, announced that city police officers would be asked to stop seizing sleeping bags, blankets, tents, and other items that help homeless people keep warm in the winter. The announcement came after a video showing officers confiscating blankets in frigid weather provoked outcry. And while the announcement was a win for Denver’s homeless, Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, notes that the seizure or destruction of homeless people’s property is common practice in the United States. Continue reading “Denver Isn’t the Only City Seizing Homeless People’s Gear”
Miami Herald – by David Ovalle
When a motorist accused Miami-Dade police officer Jonathan Lang of shooting at her during a road-rage incident in July, state troopers towed away his SUV to a secure impound lot.
But before troopers could get a search warrant to search the vehicle, Lang broke in to the South Miami-Dade tow yard and stole the Glock pistol hidden inside the SUV, according to an arrest warrant released on Wednesday. Continue reading “State: Cell records point to Miami-Dade cop’s road-rage cover up”
CNS News – by Paul Nelson and David Klinghoffer
Darwinian theory is broken and may not be fixable. That was the takeaway from a meeting last month organized by the world’s most distinguished and historic scientific organization, which went mostly unreported by the media.
The three-day conference at the Royal Society in London was remarkable in confirming something that advocates of intelligent design (ID), a controversial scientific alternative to evolution, have said for years. ID proponents point to a chasm that divides how evolution and its evidence are presented to the public, and how scientists themselves discuss it behind closed doors and in technical publications. This chasm has been well hidden from laypeople, yet it was clear to anyone who attended the Royal Society conference, as did a number of ID-friendly scientists. Continue reading “Scientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police say the suspects in a violent crime that took place in Brooklyn, are children.
Surveillance footage shows the four young suspects — accused of robbing and attacking a man — and police say one of them is as young as 8. Continue reading “Kids As Young As 8 Suspected In Violent, Early Morning Robbery In Fort Greene”
US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen right-winger David Friedman as America’s next ambassador to Israel.
The 57-year-old lawyer is strongly critical of the long-held US goal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Continue reading “Trump chooses pro-settlement hardliner as Israel envoy”
